openBSD 4.5, as guest, panicked if I tired to present VirtualBox's puedo SATA interface to it. Used IDE (non-SATA) instead. Not sure if bsd.mp is needed or not. Unfortunately, on my last attempt (which was usccessful) I changed more then one VB setting and OBSD install elective -- including bsd.mp was one of them.

My host system is Vista-64, AMD dual-core 2.8GHz, ASUS M3A78-EM, which has the AMD 780G/SB700-series chipsets.

I may play with the settings to try to identify what is minimally needed, but right now I need to get on with USING the virtual machine, not WRESTLING with it.

Just thought I'd share that just-released VirtualBox 2.2.4 appears to have advanced itself sufficiently to run an openBSD 4.5 guest.

Good luck all.
/S

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I first downloaded (ftp) the "install45.iso" (i386/32-bit) to the Vista host. Then, in VirtualBox, in the openBSD guest's CD/DVD-ROM settings, you enable "Mount the CD/DVD Drive," and enable "ISO Image File," and path to install45.iso.

When you "start" the openBSD guest (virtual machine), it will "boot" the install45.iso just as if this were physical CD-ROM media in a real physical CD-ROM drive on a real physical machine. (It's very striaght forward.)

From there you just follow the install as if it were from the CD-ROM, including all the distro sets.

You can also do a half-and-half by downloading and "booting" "cd45.iso" (instead of install45.iso) and then getting the "rest" of any needed sets over the net.

install45.iso is the whole works. cd45.iso is a skinny boot-only image. If you're on high-speed broadband, get install45.iso; it's just the easiest, especially if you end up wrestling with openBSD/VirtualBox.

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When BRIDGING the above HOST adapter to the openBSD GUEST adapter, using the "MT" type guest adapter results in sporadic openBSD-level "seg faults." Using the "T" type guest adapter has been operating well.

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I cannot comprehend why people keep trying to use OpenBSD in a virtual environment..

I do not have yet-another beige box.

I do not want to install compiler and other tools on the production boxes -- a definite security risk/threat vector.

I do not want to suck another 130 WATTS or so nor produce its equivalent in carbon footprint operating yet-another beige box, when a virtual machine *may* instead use an incremental 7-11 WATTS on my under utilized existing machine.

I do want to form (and subsequently fold) a pilot / proof of concept sandbox to play in and keep safe my other production machines and environs.

I do want to use an under-utilized machine that I already have in-hand for (A)'s purposes rather then breed yet-another under-utilized beige box.

I do want to understand visualization -- in all its prevalent variants -- as part of my professional standing as a CISA, CISM and CISSP. And the best way to do so is live in and on the stuff, rather then parrot "someone says."

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The reverse of the cited argument is also true: the development and use of VM engines has surfaced all sorts of hard-core errors and crappy code lurking in O/S of all flavors and drivers resulting in across the board corrections and improvements.

Most projects learn and cooperate in the new ecosystem; certain projects don't.

/S

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Running OpenBSD in a VM makes OpenBSD vulnerable to bugs in the VM code, it can lead both developers and users down the wrong path.

Low cost, Low power x86 hardware exists.. I do understand that embedded Atom and Via Nano processors use very little power.

IMHO, real hardware is always a better option, virtualization will simply never quite cut it.. and considering the developers will not take any VM bug reports seriously, you're essentially using an unsupported setup.

-- Harry Chapin Flowers Are Red lyrics
(Spoken)Your son marches to the beat of a different drummer, comer.
(Spoken)But don't worry,
(Spoken)We'll have him joining the parade by the end of the term
The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw
And the teacher said.. What you doin' young man
I'm paintin' flowers he said
She said... It's not the time for art young man
And anyway flowers are green and red
There's a time for everything young man
And a way it should be done
You've got to show concern for everyone else
For you're not the only one
And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen
But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
Well the teacher said.. You're sassy
There's ways that things should be
And you'll paint flowers the way they are
So repeat after me.....
And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen
But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
The teacher put him in a corner
She said.. It's for your own good..
And you won't come out 'til you get it right
And are responding like you should
Well finally he got lonely
Frightened thoughts filled his head
And he went up to the teacher
And this is what he said.. and he said
Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen
Time went by like it always does
And they moved to another town
And the little boy went to another school
And this is what he found
The teacher there was smilin'
She said...Painting should be fun
And there are so many colors in a flower
So let's use every one
But that little boy painted flowers
In neat rows of green and red
And when the teacher asked him why
This is what he said.. and he said
Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.
But there still must be a way to have our children say . . .
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
-- Harry Chapin Flowers Are Red lyrics

Yes, bsdfan666 (and the cited leads), beige PCs are beige and, in some circles, "there's no need to see flowers --err beige PCs -- any other way."

Cheers, my forum friend./S

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Finally installed OBSD in VBox using the iso and thanks. Has anyone succesfully got carp and psfync working using two obsd virtual machines of course? That's my next step. I'm using a Vista host on laptop.